Cildo Meireles
Guest Speaker
Cildo Meireles was born in 1948 in Rio de Janeiro and since the late 1960s has created sculptures, installations and interventions which often involve an element of participation, drawing attention to the body in space and time, whether as a physical, psychological, social or political being, and most frequently as a combination of all of the above. In his work Meireles addresses political, social and environmental issues, which in the 1960s and 70s created tension with the Brazilian government’s strict state censorship. His installation ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ of 1973, for instance could only be publicly exhibited in 1979, due to the restrictions. His later works comment on the economical development of Brazil and the responsibility of the country for its indigenous cultures and environmental destruction.
Retrospectives of his work have been held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1999), traveling to the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Sao Paolo, and at Tate Modern in London (2008).
Links
- Tate Modern
Related Events
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Cildo Meireles Occasion (2005/2008)
Tuesday 21 Oct, 2008,
19:00 to 21:00
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art & Design -
Cildo Meireles
Tuesday 21 Oct, 2008,
17:15 to 19:00
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art & Design
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